Roberto Rodriguez Masada’s dynamic blending of Cuban music with the Jewish tradition has produced some of the most popular and best selling CDs on the Tzadik label in NYC. On Aguares, his latest work, he turns his brilliant arranging skills and fabulous all-star octet to nine beautiful melodies from Zorn’s lyrical Book of Angels. Recorded in Israel with some of the strongest musicians to be found in the exciting Israeli music scene, the music is at once familiar and surprising, touching on traditions while bringing them into the 21st century with imagination, wit and a passionate creativity.